SPIRITS OF WINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spirits of wine mean? 

• SPIRITS OF WINE (noun)
  The noun SPIRITS OF WINE has 1 sense:

1. rectified ethyl alcohol

  Familiarity information: SPIRITS OF WINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPIRITS OF WINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rectified ethyl alcohol

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("spirits of wine" is a kind of...):

ethanol; ethyl alcohol; fermentation alcohol; grain alcohol (the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline)

 Context examples 

“You have only to wash his face and his leg in spirits of wine, and you will find that he is the same old Silver Blaze as ever.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)